In the course of just 13 games, the Erskine Academy boys lacrosse team went from virtually no expectations to piling up a heap of them in a hurry.

“Being a first-year coach, nobody really has any idea going into it what’s going to come of it,” Jason Wade said of leading the Eagles during the 2017 season. “I had high expectations for us. I think everyone did for us to be competitive. The kids wanted to win, but they weren’t sure how to do that. Learning how to win, how to put those simple pieces in place, now we’ll have to learn how to play with those types of expectations going forward.”